. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. ,therefore, the specific denominationsBallista, Catapulta, Scorpio, andothers enumerated in the ClassedIndex. 2. (arpe€\coT7]piou). Also, a gene-ral term for an instrument of tor-ture (Plin. xxxiv. 19. § vi. 11.) 5 no doubt, because the rack was one of the commonest andearliest in use. 3. (for6£a&
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. ,therefore, the specific denominationsBallista, Catapulta, Scorpio, andothers enumerated in the ClassedIndex. 2. (arpe€\coT7]piou). Also, a gene-ral term for an instrument of tor-ture (Plin. xxxiv. 19. § vi. 11.) 5 no doubt, because the rack was one of the commonest andearliest in use. 3. (for6£a>/ma). A strong cable girtround the hull of a ship from stem tostern, for the purpose of strengthen-ing her timbers in heavy weather.(Isidor. Orig. xix. 4. 4.) A numberof these were kept in the arsenal,taken on board when a vessel wasordered out to sea, and put on asoccasion required. TORNUS (j6pvos). A lathe, orturners wheel (Virg. Georg. ii. vii. 57); also, a sharp-pointed carving or graving-tool,turned by a lathe. Virg. Eel. iii. 38. TORQUATUS (arpeirro^Spos).Wearing a twisted collar (torquis)round the neck, as was customarywith the Gauls (see the wood-cut ), the Persians, and otherraces, in the manner shown by theannexed figure, representing one of. the Persian soldiers in the famousmosaic of Pompeii. Hence, milestorquatus amongst the Romans is asoldier who had been presented withan ornament of this description as areward of valour (Veg. Mil. ii. Plin. xxxiii. 10.);which he did not wear round hisneck, like the Orientals, but affixedto his breast in the same manner as amodern decoration. This is clearlydemonstrated by the following exam-ple, which exhibits the portrait of acenturion on a sepulchral bas-relief,who wears the following decorations ; 678 TORQUIS. TORULUS. —a lemniscus streaming from theback of the head, two torques on his
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